Initiation by Param Sant Satguru Pune, India — July 6, 2013
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Initiation by Param Sant Satguru Pune, India — July 6, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfRpr_YbOk4 Friends, welcome to this second day of our get-together here. I am very happy that we could get together, meet some people individually and collectively, small group of people. It was a nice visit to Pune, and I hope to make another visit sometime to Pune to carry on any leftover business. I want to talk to you today about a very important subject. The subject is: What is initiation by a Perfect Living Master? What happens when a Sant Satguru initiates a person or gives Naam to that person? What exactly is the process? What actually happens? There are many kinds of masters; there are many kinds of gurus. There are gurus who teach you how to go within to your energy centers. Those energy centers are six centers lying below the eyes. They’re known as the six chakras or six energy centers. If you concentrate your attention on any one of those centers, you get different kind of wonderful experiences, including out-of- body experiences. But they do not give you any higher awareness. They will give you more energy. They’ll give you energetic experiences. They do not increase your level of knowledge of who you are. They will give you more knowledge of what is around you, what is circulating around you, and what kind of energies are controlling your body, controlling your consciousness in this physical world. These six centers are called the centers of Pinda. Pinda, as you know, means the body, physical body. So, these six centers control all our life in the physical world. From birth to death these centers are controlling our life, and that is why they’re very important for understanding anything about the energy circuits in the body in relation to the experiences outside. These centers are very valuable and important. So many of the yogis practicing concentration of attention within themselves have put their concentration on these six centers. Some of them have covered all the centers. Some of the yogis say you should cover all the centers, starting from the bottom, going up, and reaching the sixth center behind the eyes. The eyes… They have compared these centers to leaves, lotus leaves of a plant. They call this two eyes two-petaled lotus. When we start any kind of meditation… I was mentioning to you the value of yogic exercises in which we can put our attention, concentrate our attention on the six centers of energy in the body called the centers of Pinda of this physical body. They will give you information and give you knowledge, even a knowledge of what lies beyond this physical body because the energy circuits go beyond this physical body. Therefore, you can have some very interesting non- physical experiences, and very often we think just by having a non-physical experience we have reached spiritual enlightenment. It is a sort of enlightenment because it is more than what we normally see with our physical eyes and physical ears, and we are now seeing something different, so therefore, it looks very interesting and looks like enlightenment of some kind. But these centers deal with the energy. Energy is different from awareness. Awareness is to know more; energy is to experience energy. There’s a slight difference between the two. To get awareness, a higher awareness than we have as physical beings, we have to go beyond the Pinda, beyond the body, and that is to go directly to the astral body to the suksham sharir or the sharir, the body in which the sense perceptions are themselves located. Instead of seeing them through the filter of the physical body, we can see them directly from our own sense perceptions, which are the astral body. So that is a much more valuable tool for gaining true knowledge of our own self beyond the physical. So that is sometimes referred to as Anda. Anda means egg. That means origin. The origin of all physical experiences lies in the astral plane. Nothing exists in this physical plane, including our physical body, that does not have an origin in the astral plane. So astral plane is the originator of all our experiences. When you go to the astral plane of awareness and stay there, understand it, you find that it was a coarse/gross representation of what is lying in the astral plane. The finer things are there. For example, you have artificial light here to light this room. In the astral plane, you can go to the same room, it’s lighted by itself. Human beings who are in astral form emit their own light, just like some fish in the physical world at the bottom of the sea have their own light. Similarly, in the astral plane, everything has some illumination in it. It’s a radiant form of life compared to the physical because that energy of the astral body is very different from the energy of the physical body. So those…there are separately, separate six chakras to represent the astral system in our consciousness, and they can be accessed, they can be accessed by not going to the lower centers but withdrawing attention behind the eyes. These are—when you sit vertically— these are located vertically below. Those are horizontal behind the eyes. So, they are similar ones, like we have the four-petaled lotus at the bottom, at our rectum. We have the six-petaled lotus state, twelve, sixteen, and then two. Same pattern is followed in the astral cycle behind. When we withdraw our attention, however hard we may try—we try a system of imagination, which you tried yesterday with me—and that also does not fully take us back. We are still thinking of these eyes. When we try to turn our head inside, the tendency is to turn this head also, because we do not disassociate ourselves from this body. So, to start with the two-petal lotus is common to both cycles. These six centers end with two- petal lotus. Those six centers start with two-petal lotus and go on to what is sixteen-petal lotus here—that becomes a thousand-petal lotus at the same stage. The thousand-petal lotus, which has been called Sahansdal Kamal, and the thousand-petal lotus has a reflection which reflects throughout the whole astral and physical body. So many people who want to associate that with the physical chakras, they call it the seventh center at the top of the head because of the reflection of the thousand petal-lotus throughout the system of the physical and astral bodies. So that is why that experience is a remarkable experience. Before that experience takes place, you go through a sky. Every level of experience creates a space, and that space creates a universe. If there is no space, there is no universe. Even a physical space is creating a physical universe. The astral space creates an astral universe. I drew some circles the other day— yesterday—and that represented how there’s expansion of space at every level. The expanded space where we are located, whether we are flying or on the surface, has a sky. The sky is uniquely different at every level. So, you can’t mistake that maybe you are having a dream, it looked like that in the meditational practice. There is so much certainty about each level that you have no doubt where you are. If you are only having dreams and so on, you can have a doubt (Was it a dream? Was it really any higher level of consciousness or not?). But when you’re actually at that higher level, beyond the overlap, there’s no doubt left at all where you are. The sky is dimly lighted in the astral plane always. There’s no night as we know it here. The darkness and the light are mingled, comingled there, in such a way that a gray sky exists all the time. Something very similar to the Pune sky now, you see. That is day and night, 24 hours. So, everything is always lit up, and every object, every being, every person is lit up. So, they emit their own light, they don’t need any external light. Nothing can be seen in the physical world except by reflected light. Light has to fall upon an object. Light has to fall upon a person. Depending on the colors of the person or the object, it absorbs some colors, reflects the others when we see that color. As I was mentioning to you, the experience of the genuine astral plane is remarkable. Before that happens, you pass through the sky, the same astral sky, and see the original sun and moon, stars. You discover that the planetary system here, which consists of millions of stars and billions of galaxies over here, originates from a primordial star, primordial system—galactic system—primordial, which exists in the astral plane. You can pass through it in your astral body. You can sit on the surface of those things. You can go through these. If you see a star in that level, you can race toward the star by practice and go right through it and open up another sky. It’s amazing how so many skies can open up even in the astral plane, that you go all through these. And you need not go. It’s not necessary that everybody has to go, but you can.